S8 Ep809: 1. Headline: Peru's Electoral Uncertainty and the Simmering Falklands Dispute Guest: Professor Evan Ellis Summary: Professor Ellis discusses Peru's presidential election, where leftist Roberto Sanchez has unexpectedly surged into a runoff against Keiko Fu
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel. This is the New World Report, Professor Aben Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. |
| 0:23.8 | We march to the sound of voting. We go immediately to Peru, a troubled land, nine presidents in 10 years, |
| 0:31.0 | and now the presidential election brings forth disturbing news again of something not trustworthy. |
| 0:39.9 | The voting process itself and the long counting afterwards. Professor, a very good day to you. When last we left this melodrama of Peru, |
| 0:46.6 | the number six polling candidate before the first round of the election, a man who is associated with intellectuals and with the assembly, but was wearing a sombrero |
| 0:59.5 | as if he was inheriting Castillo's indigenous vote, the working man of Peru. |
| 1:06.6 | He was in sixth place before the polling, and then suddenly was surging ahead of the number two, |
| 1:13.7 | given that the second round of voting will be the top two candidates. |
| 1:17.7 | Where is he today? |
| 1:19.1 | And what does this mean about trusting the voting process in Peru, given the now doubts about the election chief? |
| 1:26.5 | Good day to you. |
| 1:28.2 | Good day to you, John. Well, it certainly little by little looks like the leftist psychologist |
| 1:33.6 | Roberto Sanchez, who's again affiliated with people like Cuba-friendly Vladimir Ciroone, |
| 1:39.7 | will make it into the number two position coming out of the round one of the election, |
| 1:45.7 | which took place on April 12th. |
| 1:48.1 | Initially, as you pointed out, he was not anyplace close to the number two. |
| 1:53.0 | And certainly there have been some analysis of what appeared to be irregularities in the special |
| 1:59.7 | election districts that are set up for Peruvians who do not live close to where they're registered. |
| 2:05.6 | But apart from that, as the voting goes forward and they're promising to resolve this issue by May 15th, |
| 2:13.6 | Sanchez has moved from about 10,000 votes up, about 0.1 percentage point to about 24,000 votes. |
| 2:21.5 | So it looks like he's going to get it if things don't change, which means that Peru then goes to round two of those elections on June 7th, |
| 2:29.7 | where it will be the daughter of the previous of Peruvian president, specifically Keiko Fujimori, |
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